Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by Exist-en-ciel 
In order to give this list balance, diversity and coherence, I imposed certain rules on myself in its development:
- One album per artist with one exception
- A maximum of 10 albums from the BEA top 100
- A maximum of 25 albums from the BEA top 1000
- A maximum of 50 albums from the BEA top 2000
- A maximum of 5 compilations
- A maximum of 5 live albums
- A maximum of 5 EPs
- A maximum of 20 albums per decade
- A minimum of 10 albums per decade (60s-10s)
- A minimum of 15 countries represented
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Ranks 1 to 23: top 23
Ranks 24 to 100: chronology 1963-2024
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23 best ever songs:
• Symphony No. 9 in D minor - 4th movement (Presto) - Ludwig van Beethoven (1824)
• Boléro - Maurice Ravel (1928)
• Echoes - Pink Floyd (1971)
• The Musical Box - Genesis (1971)
• Supper's Ready - Genesis (1972)
• Firth of Fifth - Genesis (1973)
• The Cinema Show - Genesis (1973)
• In the Cage - Genesis (1974)
• Comme un sage - Harmonium (1976)
• Disorder - Joy Division (1979)
• Duke's Travels - Genesis (1980)
• Once in a Lifetime - Taking Heads (1980)
• Lorelei - Cocteau Twins (1984)
• Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) - Kate Bush (1985)
• Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order (1986)
• It's Alright - Pet Shop Boys (1988)
• Digging in the Dirt - Peter Gabriel (1992)
• Unison - Björk (2001)
• J'erre - Dumas (2003)
• Where I End and You Begin - Radiohead (2003)
• Olympians - Fuck Buttons (2009)
• Afterlife - Arcade Fire (2013)
• Over and Over - Beach House (2022)
- Chart updated: 24 hours ago
- (Created: 08/24/2022 18:20).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Track selection: Disorder
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1. Disorder 9.5
2. Day of the Lords 8.5
3. Candidate 8
4. Insight 8.5
5. New Dawn Fades 8.5
6. She's Lost Control 8.5
7. Shadowplay 8.5
8. Wilderness 8
9. Interzone 8
10. I Remember Nothing 8.5 [First added to this chart: 08/24/2022]
8.4/10
Track selection: Disorder
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1. Disorder 9.5
2. Day of the Lords 8.5
3. Candidate 8
4. Insight 8.5
5. New Dawn Fades 8.5
6. She's Lost Control 8.5
7. Shadowplay 8.5
8. Wilderness 8
9. Interzone 8
10. I Remember Nothing 8.5 [First added to this chart: 08/24/2022]
Year of Release:
1979
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Rank Score:
23,629
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Top 100 Greatest Music Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 1 | 1% | |
| 1960s | 10 | 10% | |
| 1970s | 20 | 20% | |
| 1980s | 16 | 16% | |
| 1990s | 14 | 14% | |
| 2000s | 20 | 20% | |
| 2010s | 13 | 13% | |
| 2020s | 6 | 6% |
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| Genesis | 2 | 2% | |
| Fuck Buttons | 1 | 1% | |
| Jorge López Ruiz | 1 | 1% | |
| Metric | 1 | 1% | |
| Joanna Newsom | 1 | 1% | |
| Joy Division | 1 | 1% | |
| Radiohead | 1 | 1% | |
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